Monday, 30 June 2014

While implementing pages in JSF you will often encounter silly problems which may take hours to solve. The longest it takes to find solution, the stupidest problem usually is. This is one of such situations.

Monday, 16 June 2014

Generating PDF files is a common thing in web applications. For a long time I was using iText to accomplish this task but writing PDF’s content in Java code was a struggle. Nowadays iText is free for non-commercial use only which makes it even less sensible choice.

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

While using Hibernate to manage DB operations in your application you may also need to use triggers to perform specific updates directly inside DB. But if you're using both update methods it's essential to protect yourself against yo-yo effect.

Thursday, 9 January 2014

Chrome on Android has a feature called 'Font Boosting' which resizes text to make it larger once a paragraph of text reaches certain length. This maybe useful for a reader but also can destroy a layout of your web page.